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Could an Adsense issue affect Search rank?

I have had a site up for about 6 months. There are three of us making content for the site. I decided I would experiment with using Google Adsense for ad revenue. I was denied due to copyrighted material although it does not indicate what material is copyrighted. I have some embedded YouTube videos but I have made all of those myself. All the blog content is original. Adsense is not specific about the material it thinks is copyrighted so I am not sure what the issue is. Could this effect my Pagerank and my position in Google search results?

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If you're asking whether the fact that your Adsense account was denied because of perceived copyright issues, It seems very unlikely to me that that could have any effect on your site's ranking or TBPR, Jason. Have I understood your question correctly?

Adsense itself can most definitely affect you ranking in Google. If you have adsense objects above keywords or relevant content then google will see that as more important and devalue the emphasis you have on those other elements. Also If you have content that google has flagged as copyright infringed material you can bet that it has a possibility of affecting your rankings. Remember that Google deals with spammers who scrape millions of websites and "copyrighted material" and they are no doubt at war with that. I would do everything in my power not to be associated as a using non approved copy-written material at any cost, However; since this is your own material it will probably just involve proving to Google that it is yours. I have had ads disapproved in Google adwords because the term was trademarked. As soon as we provided verification that the term was indeed trademarked the ad was approved started running again and converted very well. I assume your process should be similar but on the adsense side of things. My advice take it down until you can verify with Google that it is your content. The last thing you want Google to do is see you as someone who is running un-authorized copy-written material in anyway. Once it's aproved put it back up.

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